Wrong-site surgeries continue to be a problem

Despite numerous attempts and policies to prevent the problem, wrong-site surgeries continue to be a problem at hospitals across the United States. It happens as much as 40 times each week: A patient awakens from surgery to discover that a surgeon operated on the wrong body part, performed the wrong procedure or even mixed them up with another patient, according to a recent report in The Chicago

Medical error: wrong kidney transplanted

Wrong-site and wrong surgeries continue to be a rare yet persistent form of medical error at hospitals across the United States. A recent case involved a kidney transplant patient getting the wrong kidney. The patient was not injured because, luckily, the kidney was a fairly close match, but the mistake could have been fatal. It led officials at the University of Southern California's University